An error that I came across when trying to deploy VCSA 6.5 on VMware Workstation 12I did face this error before as well but instead of troubleshooting, I replaced workstation 12 with version 11.For some reason I needed to switch to VMware Workstation 12 and here the error shows up again!

In one of the recent Horizon view project the client want to access VDI over Internet or VPN.

Security server is used in DMZ and the VPN users also land-up in DMZ with a different Subnet than used by servers in DMZ.

When they try to access using FQDN (view.domain.com) from Internet, they are asked for credentials. Once credentials are provided they are faced with the following error : “You are not entitled to use the system”Apart from Desktop Pool Entitlements, you have to add the users under “Remote Access” tab found in “Users and Groups” section (left navigation menu). These are the users whom you want to be able to access desktops over internet or VPN.

As everything is real world has time limit, so does the HDD in my Synology DS1515+, one HDD failed and lost all of the entertainment media.
1515+ got 5 drive bays and had to use a single HDD for entertainment, truth is non of the data I put on synology really matters as its for vmware vSphere HomeLab!

Anyways, stories aside.

Got 2 x Kingston v300 240GB SSD for R/W cache to speed up my Lab. Though 240GB is not listed on Synology compatibility list, but 120GB v300 is listed here.

The Firmware is also different than what is listed for 120Gb v300 (FW: 605ABBF2)
SSD that I got are running on FW: 603ABBF0

I will not go into much details about the IOPS, throughput and all that.
What matters to me is that VM performance has improved to a good extent, nothing jaw dropping, but yes Guest OS is responding fast as compared to before. Got what I was expecting.

One thing that I noticed when using “SSD Cache Advisor” on Synology that I gives a vague message “The memory on your Synology NAS is full so it is not possible to create SSD cache” Though I have 8GB memory installed.
I ran Advisor with/without installed into bays. But it did finally create Cache volume.

There is requirement about RAM that you can read on Synology website here.

Exchange 2010 Mailbox server role installation create a default mailbox database which consist of System mailboxes and a Federated mailbox.
As we all know, in case if we decide to remove this Default mailbox database we need to move all mailbox to a different Database.

Though the destination Database had no limit defined.
Tried to move by defining limit on database, still of no use.
Tried to remove quota from Federated Mailbox, in this case I was greeted with error similar to “Cannot find the on DC01.domain.com” (I don’t remember the exact error)Continue reading →